Little kit foxes go for a romp

Rick Derevan posted these photos of young kit foxes to our photo of the day pool and I couldn’t pick just one, so I’m sharing them all along with his comments. You can think of them as the “photos of the day.”

The kit fox (Vulpes macrotis), is the smallest fox native to North America and typically weighs between three and a half to six pounds. The species is not generally considered endangered. However, the subpopulation of San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica), once common to California’s San Joaquin Valley, has been labeled “endangered” since 1967 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rick Derevan writes that these wild young foxes (kit fox kits?) and their mother were photographed in the urban environment where they live. He adds that the animals weren’t baited or called for the photographs.